prize ship shards

hey everyone, haven't been on bp for a while and noticed the ship shards as a prize at tier 5 in the FM. from what i've seen, you need 250 shards to complete blueprint and can only get shards on first run each week. so effectively it would take a year to get all the shards? is this right?

hey everyone, haven't been on bp for a while and noticed the ship shards as a prize at tier 5 in the FM. from what i've seen, you need 250 shards to complete blueprint and can only get shards on first run each week. so effectively it would take a year to get all the shards? is this right?

ok great, thanks for that. so the garrison pieces i have been getting go towards a superhull?

Oh dude you have a lot to catch up on lol.

Ships have been moved into classes and the foundry which is kind of like the retrofit lab. If you don't have a hull you can collect pieces to claim that blueprint, if you have the blueprint it upgrades the hull like the retrofit lab. Some of them are found in cargo fleets, others are found in FM targets, while others are found in Mining platforms. Hitting the find target button while on the sea will help a lot in finding those.

Shards from Tier 5 go to that respective hull, ghostcrawler, Protonemesis, etc. Which you can also get during raids and from DUB's.

Then there's the Gantry that has Megahulls in it. In order to do that you have to have R&D to level 20 and hit 97's which spawn when your sector is in orange threat.